Tuesday, September 27, 2011

As this year comes to a close, here is a great little factoid I heard from the Rav's Friday night דרשה:
This year, being a leap year, and since no יום טוב ever fell out on שבת we have a unique situation where we have the maximum number of סעודות you could possibly have in one year:

So now I think the logic is incorrect, because there are some leap years in which you will have 55 Shabbatot with 3 meals each, and even if one of them overlaps with a yom tov, you'll still have more meals. Give me a few minutes to think through the possibilities.

Shtikler was correct. Every other year-type with 55 Shabbatot has at least two of them on yom tov, thus removing 4 meals from the count, rather than the 3 meals omitted on Yom Kippur. Sorry for doubting you!